Lesson 5: Continuity and Change Workshop – Transoceanic Interconnections
Duration of Days: 4
Lesson Objective
Students will construct a historical argument evaluating continuity and change resulting from transoceanic interconnections between 1450 and 1750.
What changed most as a result of global connections?
What patterns of continuity remained?
continuity, change, causation, historical argument
APWH Unit 4 Topics 4.1–4.5
Skill 6.B
Reasoning Process: Continuity and Change
Organizing evidence to support an analytical writing task.
Students apply content knowledge to AP-style continuity-and-change writing aligned to the long-essay format.
Purpose: Skill application and assessment readiness
DOK: 4
Globalization and long-term consequences of economic integration.
Students may focus only on change and ignore continuity.
Claim scaffolds; peer feedback and revision.
Partial long-essay response focused on continuity and change over time.
Writing rubrics, continuity/change organizers